Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 2 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 3 | Aware of the constant potential threat from gangs of gunmen , their mission was to bring the food into the country and make sure it got through to the people most deserving of it . |
| 4 | and then when it got over to the Clerks ' Department they used to stick it on another piece of paper so that they could put it on the file |
| 5 | We have n't really er when it got up to the bigger businesses we used |
| 6 | They would n't even tell their own mothers what size socks they wear , in case it got out to the papers . ’ |
| 7 | The publican 's daughter told her elder sister , who told her aunt , and so it got back to the girl 's parents . |
| 8 | It harked back to the world of the fourth- and fifth-century Christian emperors ; at the same time it signalled a new world of money-using economic agents including peasants and small-scale traders . |
| 9 | and then it goes through to the back , now his , although it looks |
| 10 | Oh it will change again as soon as it goes round to the , to the three four one again er y you do n't see it changing it but |
| 11 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
| 12 | But , you know they can pick it and er , it just flashes up and they have to put the right answer in , if they get the right answer it it goes on to the next one , if it |
| 13 | It goes on to the erm . |
| 14 | Our own sauces , or whatever , erm , if my mother makes a cake , it goes on to the top shelf , but usually we just use everything . |
| 15 | Once a Bill has passed its Commons ' stage it goes up to the House of Lords where the same process is repeated , except that the Committee stage is taken on the floor of the House . |
| 16 | Now I , I often gives in , in schools , and I particularly show that slide because as you can see it goes up to the year twenty forty er now I shall be a hundred and four in the year twenty forty I wo n't ask you to calculate what age you will be in the year twenty forty it might be quite large erm |
| 17 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 18 | Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink . |
| 19 | And get the letter all brailled and everything so it goes down to the |
| 20 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 21 | It goes back to the astronomer Ptolemy of Alexandria ( fl. c . . |
| 22 | It goes back to the days when people used to worship heavenly bodies as gods . |
| 23 | It goes back to the second world war , really . |
| 24 | It goes back to the question I posed above : what motivates people to study sex differences and to place such emphasis upon them ? |
| 25 | It goes back to the distinction between langue and parole , the system itself and the use of the system in actual social contexts . |
| 26 | It goes back to the 1969 Magritte exhibition , also curated by Sylvester , to which the Menil lent a number of works . |
| 27 | Whether it goes back to the Iron Age or the Bronze Age , however , it has lost its original character as a wide trackway across open country . |
| 28 | It 's it 's er , the travellers tradition and it goes back to the old tradition of the Scottish people as well |
| 29 | And then you put a return in at the end of that and it goes back to the margin again . |
| 30 | ‘ It goes back to the old OSS days and the crusade we were running against Hitler along with your SOE and Dot Tuckey and people like that . |